Bug 1126989

Summary:	ipa-client-install creates configuration file with deprecated values
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Keenan Brock <kbrock>
Component:	ipa	Assignee:	Martin Kosek <mkosek>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Namita Soman <nsoman>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	7.0	CC:	dpal, jpazdziora, rcritten, xdong
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Description Keenan Brock 2014-08-05 19:19:48 UTC

Description of problem:

ipa-client-install configures ipa on clients. It creates /etc/ipa/default.conf with the proper configuration.

It populates "server" field, which according to man default.conf is deprecated.


This came up because another tool I use was parsing that file and was expecting "host" not "server", which according to the man page is the preferred value.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

ipa-client-3.0.0-37.el6.x86_64

How reproducible:

always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. ipa-client-install
2. grep '\(host\|server\)' /etc/ipa/default.conf

Actual results:

server = ipaserver.kbnet.redhat.com

Expected results:

host = ipaserver.kbnet.redhat.com

Additional info:

Thanks

Comment 2 Martin Kosek 2014-08-11 14:23:19 UTC

Thanks for report! I see exactly the same issue was just reported in upstream FreeIPA: https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/4481. I will link those 2 together.

I briefly checked in the code, we do not use api.env.server except one place, we probably copy it to, widely used, api.env.host variable. This needs to be investigated in the upstream ticket.

Comment 3 Keenan Brock 2014-08-11 14:49:05 UTC

Thank you Martin,

Sorry that this was a double post. I didn't know Nalin had posted this in freeipa.
This is related as, the "other tool" is written by Nalin.

--K

Comment 4 Martin Kosek 2014-09-26 11:42:57 UTC

Fixed upstream
master:
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/changeset/89c4f1242558d725a1771dce444df5737e49289e
ipa-4-1:
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/changeset/d82bc63960c22783d8fb56bcca5e21825d9a02cc


- host option description in man page was fixed - it is the local hostname. The option is now also generated by client installer by default
- server option was "un-deprecated" in the client default.conf - this specifies the server that the client enrolled with.

Comment 6 Xiyang Dong 2015-01-13 20:32:18 UTC

Verified on ipa-client-4.1.0-13.el7.x86_64:

[root@qe-blade-05 ~]# ipa-client-install
WARNING: ntpd time&date synchronization service will not be configured as
conflicting service (chronyd) is enabled
Use --force-ntpd option to disable it and force configuration of ntpd

Discovery was successful!
Hostname: qe-blade-05.testrelm.test
Realm: TESTRELM.TEST
DNS Domain: testrelm.test
IPA Server: hp-dl385gen8-01.testrelm.test
BaseDN: dc=testrelm,dc=test

Continue to configure the system with these values? [no]: y
.
.
.
Client configuration complete.


[root@qe-blade-05 ~]# grep '\(host\|server\)' /etc/ipa/default.conf
server = hp-dl385gen8-01.testrelm.test
host = qe-blade-05.testrelm.test

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2015-03-05 10:13:00 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0442.html